Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Machine knitting mishap,and more weaving projects



This is a baby afghan started,made from Lion Brand Ice Cream yarn in Strawberry. Three panels that are joined by a string of hearts edging.




Here is one of the finished panels.




Here are two panels joined together,and you can see the problem,one is longer than the other.  My dog is holding down the edges,stockinette knitting curls without an edging.  Put the longer panel back on the machine,undid the cast off edge and ripped back until they matched.  Now it needs to be bound off again and join the third panel. Another heart edging will be done all around the outer edges then it will be done.




Here is a scarf  being warped on the 15 inch Flip loom. Shawl in a ball yarn, and the color escapes me right now. Don't have the label handy,here.




Weaving in progress.




Warping the 29 inch loom, the dark you see in my window is a snowbank,we had a heavy snowstorm with about 25 inches over that weekend plus lots of drifting.




Here is the weaving in progress. It is Lion Brand Ice Cream yarn in lemon swirl. This warp didn't go as well as the shawls did on the bigger loom.  The threads are skewed slightly for some reason. Have been trying to correct it by pulling up on the lower side and down on the higher side while weaving and it seems to be improving.

Also am not happy with the sett,should have used the larger heddle,the warp threads are too close together and it's more difficult to beat,or get a good shed. The shuttle keeps missing threads and I have to unweave and fix them.

Weaving tools

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